US Patent Issued to University of Pittsburgh-Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education, Ri.MED Foundation on Dec. 30 for "Double component mandrel for electrospun stentless, multi-leaflet valve fabrication" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,126, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to University of Pittsburgh-Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh) and Ri.MED Foundation (Palermo, Italy).

"Double component mandrel for electrospun stentless, multi-leaflet valve fabrication" was invented by Vinay Badhwar (Washington, Pa.), Young Jae Chun (Wexford, Pa.), Antonio D'Amore (Pittsburgh) and William R. Wagner (Gibsonia, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of making a valve structure includes a step of rotating a mandrel and an electrodeposition target attached to the mandrel about a rotational axis of the mandrel. The target includes an exterior surface ha...